Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Todays Comments

The children and I are reading Anne Of Green Gables. We are at the very beginning and we have just been introduced to the little orphan girl that is to reside with the Cuthbert family. Colin said, "Hey, she is like an eleven year old Mason-Kate." Not really understanding if he was referring to MK once being an orphan or exactly what he meant, I asked, "What do you mean?" He smiled and said, "You know how MK talks ALL the time? Well, it seems that little girl has the same problem!"

And moving on through the chapter, it speaks of how Anne can imagine away most anything - her eyes, her freckles, her living circumstances - anything except her red hair! She states that she cannot imagine away her red hair no matter how hard she tries. The boys and I were discussing this and P chimed in and said, "Well, she should just try adding a little food coloring to her hair then. That would make it a different color!" Yes, indeed, it would.

In other news, we came home yesterday to an update on little Maddox! She is so precious and I cannot wait to share photos of her on our blog! The update states that she is taking a few steps on her own, she is standing alone, she likes to eat "biscuits" to which I noted that in the pics she is holding this round, putrid green looking cracker/cookie thing and she has clearly taken a bite of it, and her lip was repaired on September 3 - the very day that our paperwork was sent to China! We were so thankful to receive the update and photos - mainly the photos! She has changed so much and her eyes are beautiful, her hair is no longer a fuzz - it is actually hair that will look so precious in a big, big, BOW, LOL! She is currently 14 months old, the same age MK was when we brought her home!

Sunday, October 10, 2010

PA! PA! PA! (and other things)


Pre Approval for Little Miss Maddox Ren Drafts! It arrived today and we are more than excited to know that we are well on our way to our little girl who awaits us in China! Now, we wait again. This time we are waiting for a document called the Letter of Acceptance and it will take somewhere in the neighborhood of two months to arrive. Let the countdown begin.....
Backing up a bit, we arrived home late last Sunday evening from our Florida trip but that did not stop us! We suited up, accomplished some academic priorities, and began our week with piano, drum lessons and boyscouts. That was Monday. Tuesday came, we had speech for MK, then it was off to co-op where MK's class took a field trip to a local fire station, ballet class - she loves this and comes home every week speaking a new French dance term and dancing around our house - and baseball.
Our co-op preschoolers

Wednesday arrived and we were very excited to, again, do some academic priorities first and then it was off to a local farm to explore with fellow homeschooling friends. There were animals of all sorts, a hayride, pumpkin decorating, a big pillow for jumping and these really cool, big slides. Poor Pryce, who rarely complains about not feeling well, even when he really doesn't feel well, was miserable. Not long after our arrival, he came to me and said he just wanted to lay down or go home - he was feeling so tired. I knew something was definitely not right because we were at a place that I knew he would take full advantage of to have fun AND all of his best buddies were with him. We ended up at the doctor that afternoon and began taking meds that evening. The good news is that his arm, which still looks questionable after his wrestling with the trailer, was examined again and it is continuing to heal.
This is the response I got when I suggested we take a family shot!
Thursday, with a fever free Pryce, we headed over for yet another field trip. This time, a local airport. The children were all taken with the private aircrafts they were invited to explore, and they were elated to learn that one can take flying lessons at the age of 12! Notice I state that "they" were elated, their mother, not so much :)
Friday proved to be a day of rest for the most part. MK and I attended her IEP meeting and we are pleased to announce that she still qualifies for speech services through our local school system. She does continue to speak well and the therapist was quick to note that she "is barely squeaking in" but we will take it! Her challenges lie mostly with her wanting to speak quickly - we have to remind her to S-L-O-W down and put the ending sound on all of her words, not just some of them.